Physician viewpoint: Homeless people need more than houses — they need healthcare solutions

Becker's Healthcare April 20, 2021
Hannah Mitchell

Homelessness is beyond a housing problem; it is, in part, a healthcare crisis, and treating it as otherwise can stunt leaders from tackling the problem, an April 17 Forbes article reported.

Sachin Jain, MD, is the president and CEO of SCAN Group and Health Plan. He is also a physician at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, a professor of medicine at Stanford (Calif.) University School of Medicine and the co-editor-in-chief of a healthcare journal.

Dr. Jain said that while affordable housing puts a roof over the head of someone unhoused, it does little to address root causes like substance use disorder or physical illnesses.

The solutions he envisions provide housing-insecure individuals with more and better healthcare. He said in...

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